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Burkina Faso military leaders 'free President Kafando'
Date: 2015-09-18 15:12:43 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:69 - ID:3376257
LONDON, Sept 18 (MENA) - Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando has been freed and is in good health, the new military leaders said Friday. However, Prime Minister Isaac Zida, who was also detained when the presidential guard stormed a ....
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Islamists retake town in Somalia after African forces quit
Date: 2015-09-18 09:16:01 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:22 - ID:3373957
MOGADISHU, Sept 18 (MENA) - Islamist militant group al Shabaab has retaken another town in Somalia from African troops, adding to a string of settlements it has seized this month, the group and an official said. Al Shabaab retook the town of ....
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Africa's anti-human trafficking conference closed in Sharm
Date: 2015-09-17 13:38:29 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:52 - ID:3369529
CAIRO, Sept 17 (MENA) – The second regional conference of the African Union on means to combat human trafficking rounded up in Sharm El Sheikh. African countries voiced care to combat trafficking. Egypt is financing a program to help the ....
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4 soldiers killed in Somalia in explosion inside military base
Date: 2015-09-17 11:39:44 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:40 - ID:3368969
MOGADISHU, Sept 17 (MENA) – At least four Somali soldiers were killed and 10 others were injured in an explosion inside a military base in Kismayo town, southern Somalia military officials said on Thursday. "We have been busy paying soldiers, ....
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General to head transitional council after Burkina coup - statement
Date: 2015-09-17 10:48:41 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:37 - ID:3368401
OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 17 (MENA) - Leaders of a coup in Burkina Faso have named Gilbert Diendere, a general in the elite presidential guard, to head a transitional council, the soldiers said in a statement broadcast on state-run television. The ....
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France condemns coup in Burkina Faso
Date: 2015-09-17 10:09:59 GMT - France - Africa - SN:32 - ID:3367941
PARIS, Sept 17 (MENA) – France condemned a military coup in Burkina Faso and called for the immediate release of all those arrested and the continuation of the electoral process, the BBC reported on Thursday. Burkina Faso's military said it had ....
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Shooting heared in Burkina Faso as officers dissolve government
Date: 2015-09-17 09:49:58 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:31 - ID:3367769
OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 17 (MENA) - Presidential guard officers in Burkina Faso have announced the dissolution of the transitional government, according to the BBC. A new "national democratic council" had taken control to end the "deviant regime", ....
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Military in Burkina Faso confirms coup, dissolves government
Date: 2015-09-17 09:39:18 GMT - Burkina Faso - Africa - SN:30 - ID:3367773
OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 17 (MENA) – Burkina Faso's military took to the airwaves Thursday while gunfire rang out in the streets to declare it now controls the West African country, confirming that a coup has taken place just weeks before elections, ABC ....
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US condemns detention of Burkina Faso president by his presidential guard
Date: 2015-09-17 06:59:48 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:4 - ID:3366737
WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (MENA) – The United States said it is deeply concerned about the unfolding events in Burkina Faso, US State Department Spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday. In a press release, he said "We call for the immediate release of ....
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Nigeria in talks with Boko Haram over kidnapped schoolgirls
Date: 2015-09-16 16:42:36 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:96 - ID:3365089
ABUJA, Sep 16 (MENA) - The Nigerian government is talking to the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram to try to get the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, the president was quoted by Fox News as saying. The government is talking to ....
